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Published Tuesday and Friday.
If straws show which way the
Wind blows, General Leonard Wood
appears to be a strong favorite for
the presidency. Last week The Her
aid chronicled the result of such a
Tote taken in Box Butte county, and
the Judgment of local republican pol
iticians Is shown to be sound by an
ther straw ballot taken at the con
stitutional convention. In a total of
7 rotes, the general received 36,
more than all the rest put together.
Governor Louden of Illinois, who
lias been considered as having strong
hances of winning the Nebraska
electoral vote, received but 2, as did
ex-President Taft. The democrats
who roted did not appear to take the
matter seriously, as witness the vote
east for Jerry Howard of Omaha,
who was the preference of 4, and
William Jennings Bryan, who was
supported by 5. Some of the other
votes were: Hiram Johnson 4,
McAdoo 2, Champ Clark 2, Schwab
1, Hoover 1, Tolndexter 1, Wilson 1.
Thirty-three of the members refused
to vole. There seems to be a crys-
tnllizstlon of republican sentiment In
favor of Wood, but democrats are in
no hurry to mske a choice.
Within the past ten days, a move
ment has been atarted to make Gen
eral Tershing the next president, in
that time. The Herald has received
rnlnmna nf SU eEested copy, and one
nr two columns of boiler plate,
somewhat cleverly disguised as news
coming, as it does, at the time the
general is returning to Nebraska for
his first real visit since, the war.
Mark Woods of Lincoln is chairman
of the national rershtng-for-pres-iHont
pnmmittee. and seems to . be
aided and abetted by ex-Senator E.
J. Burkett, who evidently hopes to
get another ray or two of the lime
light. So far as is known, the com
mittee has never received any Inti
mation that General Pershing would
accept the nomination if it were of
fered him on a silver platter; In fact,
all his published utterances have
been to the opposite effect. But
they are going ahead on a huge scale,
and the press of the state which
needs filler will be publishing long
articles about "Nebraska's favored
son" until the primaries are a thing
of the past. The editor of The Her
ald, who has all due respect for Gen
eral Pershing as head of the Amer
ican expeditionary force, lays no
claim to being a political forcaster,
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S. A. MILLER, Prop.
of Havanas that the general will not
get to first base In any such attempt.
These millions of soldiers who have
returned home from barracks and
trenches do not appear to meet the
suggestion of a military man for
president with any great degree of
enthusiasm, and we know of less
than half a dozen, scattered from
Newport, II. I., to Florida, who have
expressed even a lukewarm sent!
ment in favor of Pershing. General
Wood is much more popular with the
ex-soldier element than Pershing
and if the newiy appointed "national
committee doesn t already realize
this fact, they are In a fair way to
discover something.
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... .uhw ui iue aunt, wnicn, tor
all time to come, would be largely
dependent on a quicksand founda
tion for support of dams across
streams and for support of power
houses."
The good ship Buford, carrying
cargo of 249 anarchists, communists
and radicals, sailed Sunday from
New York under sealed orders, with
destination unknown. The Red
cursed and yelled their defiance at
the country which deported them,
was a motley crowd; collected
raids In all parts of the country, that
thronged the decks and yelled "To
hell with America!" and "Long live
the revolution In the United
States!" Some of them, uncon
cerned, played guitars and sang In
Russian while others wept Within
three weeks the whole lot will be
deposited in some foreign port with
access to the Russia they profess to
love, and the United States will be
rid of exactly 249 plague spots
There are others of a similar nature
and doubtless other shiploads will be
deported in good time. The effect
of the deportation will have one ben
eflclal effect it will have a ten
dency to restrain the Americans who
have been financing the propaganda
A number of wealthy people, with no
work to do and more money than
they know how to spend, have drifted
into a support of bolshevism. These
parlor bolshevists have contributed
most of the money, some of them out
of pure deviltry and others because
they knew no better. The prospect
of deportation will be sufficient to
deter these weak-minded brethren
an agisters, ana no revolution can
really flourish without financial en
couragement in a country like the
United States.
And now there is proposed a Dlan
of education for labor unionists. The
last workers to organize and join the
federated ranks is the associated
teachers' union, composed of the far
uiues or schools and colleges. That's
the worst thing about college pro
fessors they take themselves too
seriously. Here they barely get into
the ranks of organized labor when
iney reel tne call to educate their
less fortunate brethren, who do not
in the least desire to be educated
They plan to open night courses for
labor leaders, where the latter will
be told all there is to. know about
economics, management and other
subjects, with the Idea of developing
a new type of labor leader, who will
co-operate in managing industries
instead of spending his time bicker
ing with employers." The socialists
in England have a similar group
anown as tne Fabian society, "Who
nave laaen it upon themselves to ed
ucate their more humble brethren
and while they have a number of in
teresting volumes and have given
thousands of illuminating lectures,
have succeeded only in getting them
selves known as "intellectuals
wuicu, oaaiy enough, is a term of
contumely. May be our labor lead
eis win attena night classes and
learn all about the law of supply and
demand, wages curves and the like,
but we have faith in human nature
ana fancy these,-earnest professors
win nave their labor for their pains.
Authorities differ as to the renal.
bility of a pipe line to bring oil and
natural gas from Wyoming to Ne-
oraska. It appears that the Wvnm
ing law prohibiting the shlDDlne of
cruae on rrom that state, in order to
build up the state's refineries, is un
constitutional. Here is the opinion
of S. C. Baasett, who discourses at
length on the plan, the only aDDar-
ent error being in quoting "Hon.
Lloyd D. Thompson" as author of
the suggestion:
"There is much of merit in the
suggestion of Hon. Lloyd D. Thomp
son of Alliance, to establish pipe
lines with which to bring fuel oil
ana natural gas from a region n1
Wyoming adjacent to the west line
of Nebraska. Along the boundary
line of the old home farm in New
York are two such pipe lines through
which runs crude petroleum from the
oil regions of northern Pennsylvania
and southern New York to the tide
water on the Atlantic coast, a dis
tance of some 300 miles. These
lines are laid on top of the ground
where they run through woods and
In crossing the valleys they are
buried deep enough not to be dis
turbed in plowing. It Is understood
there are stations at which by means
of a force pump the oil Is forced
over mountains several hundred feet
in height above the level of the val
ley. Where these pipe lines cross
the Conhocton river they are plain
ly to be seen resting on the bottom
of the stream.
"These pipe lines could be laid in
the valley of the Platte river, follow
ing a water level across the state
having an average fall of eight feet
to the mile. It la believed a pipe line
for fuel oil across Nebraska from the
Wyoming oil fields would be a much
more practical plan to furnish power
and light to the people of the state
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There will be a Christmas tree
and dinner on December 27, at the
I. O. O. F. hall on West Third street
given by Alliance lodge No. 7, A. F.
& A. M., colored, to which parents
are requested to have their children
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attend as there will be presents for
all. Joe Flndlay, secretary; Austin)
Curtis, W. M.
Rough Dry, 8c per pound,
liance Steam Laundry.
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